Tornado

just been on the BBC news web site and seen the result of many years and a lot of money. It's great. Interestingly they asked whether it is carbon frendly, well no not really but then if it pulls a train from London to York with 6 coaches with 150 in each coach then it is in comparison with all the cars that might have been used.

More info on www.martynbane.co.uk/modernsteam/ldp/60163/60163.htm and www.a1steam.com/

on the first site above it says that it should run at 120 mph and be 60% more powerful than the predestor A1, so does that mean that with modern technology etc that Mallards steam record could be broken in the future.

Congratulations to everyone involved & the very best for the future.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7536023.stm

Well Done to Everybody who has been involved in the building of Tornado and Thank You.

I saw the pictures that were on the frontpage of sky news and it does look impressive. I do hope it has a good future and well done to the Darlington crew for the effort and I hope the running in at GCR goes well.

Got several minutes on the BBC national news at 1pm today.

Well done indeed!

Regards,
John

Well impressed. Thanks for the links.

Has a full page with several excellent photos in today's 'Daily Mail' - remarkable publicity.
Again my congrats to all involved.
John Webb

You may have already seen this, but found tis video on You Tube Tornado's First Moves under power

Thanks for the link - truely wonderful sight.

This project proved the doubters wrong, and so too will the Wisbech & March Bramley Line when they start running trains. See www.bramleyline.org.uk

As one who initially had my doubts about the project I have to say it was nice to be proved wrong. What an impressive piece of work. I hope to see it in action one day.

Regards

Thanks for that - see the new post in the "Tornado Update" section....

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